GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| seedy | containing or full of seeds |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| overthrow | overturn |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |